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Saturday, August 19, 1916 - EDUCATION; CO OPERA (1) Education to Develop Tower O Cooperation to Multiply It, aai 0) Lci:at2on aad Good GoTerxsentV to Ftomota iuat Iii-ti tad Human Prosrcs Flain Talk About Men, Measures and Movements Involved A " ';'! " V"".'"" " . ' : " V. -By CLARENCE POE '' : " ' ' ' '' "4f ' - - WhO Wlfl Get the Extra $5.62 Per Bde? without the slightest knowledge-as to its own- " , - " - ' . a a. -.a ,,: ership. Now; you take it in South Carolina; ". ITS a. reflection upon iuc.iuicihScucc anu pro- and -every, bit of the grading is. done by the gressiyeness of our Southern cotton growers , purchaser of the cotton. You have either got that' fiey every year allow. a crop worth the to let, him have your cotton that way, or not better part ofa billion dollar to be graded and stlt ' goc? J? tenTr j " better pan u . A.r- - contract it is done disinterestedly, and I doubt marketed by such a loose, unscientific, haphazard exceedingly. if there is one bale mat of one system as now-prevails and has prevailed for a ; thousand that is bought in South Carolina in hundred years. - ' :, ' " -thVopea-market from the farm on which, The difference berwWn middling" . cotton and ?htn he toytr comes to sell it to the mill, he - - , .- - t . doesn't make a profit on the grading. ., : a mid dims" as shown hvHhe oort -Quotations . r . . . . the morning we write this, is cents a pound. - mere are, as Has been wen said, tnree classes ot erative, -patronage-aiviaena pian. e r . This amounts to$5.62 on a 500-pound bale. - - graders: , (1) .The competent and honest grader; : This may be a good chance to , make some The Question we now Visa to ask is,5 who is go (2) ne competent but, dishonest grader; (3) "the extra money, the coining winter. . Write for Fam ine to get this extra $5.62 per bale on your good " honest but incompetent grader. The result, as Mr. ers' Bulletin No. 578 and think about it Gifford ' ' : ', ; (15) 1:1: "--. ' . - timber included in thissah wds worth cot $1,436, or ' $1,175 ' cere: tlna t!:3 f ;rtn:r . r c : : I ; for itr:; ,;' . :,; : ; 3. A land-owner in northwestern, Ohia sot lllz sot $550r and' $600 for his timber But ; takb j r. friend's advice, he bought a portable sawmill, snv; ed the timber and sold it himself and !cle-rc 1 $1,400 instead of $600. , - ' :We "mention-these things-nowv because htrc b a fine field for cooperative marketing. When a sawmill comes to a neighborhood a bunch of farm ers' usually sell, to the owner, Why shouldn't tlicy cooperate get together and find out what, prices .. should be, arid get Jbids from a-number-of ' sawmill owners? 'Then if. prices are not satis factory, let them buy a mill together and run it . on. the coop- middling lint this year.? We ask who is going to. get it, because it is a well Jcnown fact that in hun- dreds and hundreds of Southern markets, grades above middling are practically unknown. In the early part of the season when all the cotton is good and much of It' is really "strict middling" and "good middling it is the custom of buyers to accept all cotton as, beiiig simply middling and put into their own pockets all the extra premiums for grades above middling.' As a ' merchant-farmer wroteus in our recent ''Marketing Special": "We have only a smalltown here, our cot ton market being; too small to have a sworn grader. Consequently we have sold off to cot- : John A4Brailst6n recently said in urging ajicens-' Pinchot suggested the cooperative sawmill idea inA ed graderjor his town, is. that while the honest a Tecent issue of .The Progressive Fanner, and, and competent grader gives all a square deal, "the whatever advice Pinchot gives ; about timber is aisnonest graaer wno is competent, aisnonestiy tunuig uuu grades arrd the farmer loses by that process while the honest but incompetent grader necessarily and naturally undergrades according to his own judg ment in order to protect himself from his own ig- . norance with the result that the farmer loses as , heavily from incompetent honesty as from dishon est competency.' - " ' ' ; ' Boost Your Neighborhood" : T WAS a good point made by Trof. E. R, Groves in one of our recent issues,."Keep Up Commun ity Pride," and we hope all our Progressive Farmer folks who are trying to improve condi-; tions in their communities will keep ProLGrovesV r I WW In one town near s, as the result pf the activity admonition in mind. Criticism should always be of the county Farmers Union, thiereis "an expert, . constructive rather than destructive. Tennvson official grader who also acts : as cotton weigher. ton factors' agents, as. we bought, the sale al- VAnd here, it seems likely to us, is a solution of the ways being - made-so many bales to average middling,'; Well, it 'averaged middling all r right (but never above middling), until proba bly 40 per cent of the cotton' crop ' had gone each season. Then began the most, abominable and . disheartening cutting and slashing of prices. They cried out blue cotton dog tail a "yellow 'smoked 'damaged etc. ' . This same man went on' to say that without get ting any extra prices above jmiddling in the early season, he had been cut: about $4 per bale under problem. We must have a weigher anyhow and by paying more, we can get an expert grader "to do both weighing and grading. As Mr. J. Z. Green says: Vhy shouldn't the cotton weigher he the , legal grader in every market town? If itcost ; a little more money to get an efficient' man, it ' will certainly Jbe money well expended in the ' " interest of justice and a square deal." "Meanwhile The Progressive Farmer wants to middling in the latter part; of the season and all - get experiences and views from farmer readers as this had gone on year after year until 1915" when to cotton' grading: and-; we will pay $2.50 for the he had his cotton officially -graded. "The result' best letter sent us and our rcgula cash rates for he says, as that c UOO bales 1 . seed we sow will bear its harvest sooner or later' iAif gives all of us an excellent piece of philosophy when he" says, It is better to fight' for the "good than to rail at the ill;" and we should .also remem-, ber Dr. vn Dyke's fine phrase about the wisdom of being "governed by pur admirationsirather than our disguests." Don't say, We have an unprogres sive, slow-moving a people Say, Our people haven't done what they ought to have done; but they are waking up and are going to do bettert Don't say, "We killed loal tax for schools, or we let our Local Union die,:or -we ..'defeated 'a plan for, a ;1y f - uciicr ruaus, ana so tucrc is no nope lor progress, hut say rather as we have no doubt 2s true, We haven't yet got to the place we ought to be but the leaven of progress is working, and all the good $13.34 of averaging middlmg prices for all, where as I had expected to Jail $1,000 short of middling basis. I am sore this grading saved' me $700 to . ; ' ;: a v. ',: , A Licensed Cotton Greder for Every 11 CoSpmtive ll&rketh SPEAKING of marketing, thereis probably no crop grown on the farm which has been so a carelessly and unprofitably marketed as timber. We have been saying this oyer and oyer again, and there are many new proofs of it in a new Farmers WE MENTION this matter now in order to Bulletin just issued by the United States Depart urge upon our' farmers the importance of .. ment of Agriculture. This is Farmers' Bulletin No. getting expert, licensed graders in he mar- , 578 Measuring and Marketing Woodlot - Pro ket towns in all sections where it b not possible ducts," and we wish every Progressive Farmer to have the cotton graded under the direction of 'reader who has 20 or more acres in timber would the state agricultural department or experiment send, for a free copy. Here are three cases the station. .- ' a.V'.:. " "," . First ofall,-consult'your agricultural depart ment and. experiment - station, and if they cannot As an anonymous poet has; well said : v rBoost your neighbor, boost your friend; A Boost the church that you attend; ' , JBoost the farm on which you're dweniog; Boost the Roods that you are aelUn; Boost the people around about you; ; TKey can get aloutT-wlthot you; But success irtll qulclrer And them. A If they know you are behind them; Boost for every forward movement " . Boost for every new Improvement; ."' Boost the stranger and the neighbor; ' Boeet the ban for whom you labor; ' Cease to be a chronic knocker; Cease to be a progress-blocker; If you'd make your township better, v Boost It to the final letter. Stop jour knocking! . Boofcl" , fit. I help you, then get busy arid get; youf neighbors busy in an effort to have a licensed grader put in your market.-.; v;- -.' ;:;';a;'',- : a State Warehouse Commissioner McLaurin., pf South Carolina, who says that he himself has ship ped cotton to New York "and received grades 65 points above those allowed him by local buyers, makes this clear statement of the' situation: "There must be some law passed that will not only adopt the fixed standards of the Unit- . ed States Government, but the graders must . . be licensed and required to grade that cotton accurately. Why, think of the system of grades upon which cotton is bought and sold in the open markets in the towns of South Carolina, as compared with the practice in the exchanges ' , of this country. If you buy 100 bales through the ew Orleans or New York Exchar&e,'and that cotton is tendered, to you; the man who 7, tenders it -is not "permitted to grade it; you w . are not. permitted , to grade it; but-they "have-., sworn, .disinterested ;grad'ers and' the, graders-V do not loiow to whom the cotlon h,elongs. It is ' i carried to them on numbers and they grade it . '.' bulletin mentions: 1. A Maryland farmer was offered $1,500 for his Protect People From Fraudulent Companies timber.; He got the -help of the state forester, ryvriERE was one subject discussed in the Pro however, who estimated the quantity of timber .1 gressive National platform fonr; years ago and hs market value "with the result that the man that deserves more' attention than it has re- M thf $1 ioc Affr. ratp(i . ceived in either state or National legislation. We , niiw Afcv t r - : his bid to $400, and the. sale, was soon made to another person Wr about $5,500." The contract also caUed for cutting. only marked trees leaving a good stand for another crop." " v " In western Ohio a farmer sold a tract of tim- . ber for $260. -The author of this bulletin carefully , measured the stumps and tops and found that "the COME TO RALEIGH AUG. 29-31 WEEK after next the North Carolina Farmers' Convention , will meet at the, A. & M. College, West Raleifh, Make ,yo'ur plans now to come and bring your wife and neighbors. We have already printed the . superb program, and the railroads offer rates of practically one' and one-half cents a . mile. Rooms at the College will be furnished free -anti meats at twenty-five cents each. ''. . refer to the demand for "blue-sky" laws to protect the public from fake promoters,this plank reading as follow : . . , , '.; ' . "The people of .the United; States are swin- . died out of many millions of dollars every year ; through worthless investments. The plain peo-" pie, the wage-earners and the men and women ... with small savings, have no way, of knowing . the" merit of concerns sending out highly col ored prospectuses offering stock for sale, pros pectuses that make , big returns seem certain and fortunes, easily within, grasp. We hold it to be the duty of the government" to protect its people from this kind of piracy." -. The fake rural credits association mentioned on the preceding page is only one bf many such companies. . ''''"; Make yourself enjoy the best booka by a little disdpUne. Get out of the narrow shell of your preferences. To this end put a -coal of fire on your own back by a self-imposed task. Do some thinking alto. Debate with your favorite Take lasue with them. Thus you will whet your faculties to a keen ed Dr. E. T. Mulllns. ' a r t r If. i : 1 1 -4'A ' 'j A i MS m ; i i lit Ai
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